I noticed something very interesting at the end of this video. When you see the heads of state marching in the parade, there are no security people close to them. (If there are, they certainly aren’t nearly as close to the state officials as you normally see Secret Service agents surround a U.S. President in a crowd). Could this be because no one would dare to assassinate them and, therefore, no security is necessary? Or maybe because in Capitalist China, unlike the United States of Socialist America, the citizens are starting to realize that their government is slowly becoming irrelevant?

UPDATE: As a few LRC readers have pointed out, at the very end of the clip you can see what look like agents in the background. Even so, they are much farther away from the politicos than you would see Secret Service agents in proximity to a U.S. president in a crowd scene.